On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > http://www.nexenta.com/blog >> > >> > >> The quote below is rather interesting, though it would have been nice if >> he included the specifics of his charge rather than just indulging in a >> bit of drive by corporate character assassination. >> >> in early 2009 we were led to understand that Sun Microsystems and other >> OpenSolaris developers do not interpret the CDDL quite as we do. It >> appears that Sun has elected to make modifications to CDDL licensed code >> for their commercial use which they then contribute back only >> sporadically, if at all. We hope we are wrong because this could harm >> the OpenSolaris community and could result in a sort of tragedy of the >> commons. > > If Sun does this with source code that has no contributions from non-Sun > people, Sun may do this altough you may dislike it. If Sun would do is with > source code that includes modifications from non-Sun people and if these > modifications from non-Sun people would exceed a certain limit that makes them > "Copyrightable", then Sun would need to make the source code of any > modification available, given that binaries from the code have been published. > > Could you explain where you believe to see a problem? >
Hi Joerg, You may be technically/legally correct.. but this is more about how the Sun wants to participate and build a community around opensolaris. If it's mission is complete open-ness, and a linux like community forming around opensolaris, this policy of holding back certain changes only hurts the mission. I daresay it turns away other ventures/projects around opensolaris. Greg: have you seen the response at http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=153&p=7 -- Anil http://www.gulecha.org _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
